Tim Lamacraft

Tim Lamacraft is a reporter for the ABC and has worked in Rural, Radio Current Affairs and News. He joined the ABC in 2013 and has done stints in Wagga Wagga, Muswellbrook, Tamworth, Sale, Melbourne and Horsham.

A Melbourne woman who called an ambulance for a homeless man after he was hit by a car is angry that her private details were forwarded to a debt collection firm seeking payment for the emergency call-out.

Australia's competition watchdog says scammers are extorting money from migrants, by falsely claiming they'll be deported if they don't pay up. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has received 300 reports about the scam since March. The new Australians are reported to have lost more than $150,000

The Victorian Government is buying up 184 properties and leasing another 124 to help ease the burden on the state's social housing bottleneck and provide accommodation for rough sleepers recently evicted from inner-city camps.